... GOP Rep Says, Wait, Maybe Democracy Is Only for When I Agree

[Jessica_Rose ✅]

After Daughters of the American Revolution Choose Trans Inclusion, GOP Rep Says, Wait, Maybe Democracy Is Only for When I Agree

https://www.them.us/politics/ben-cline-daughters-american-revolution 🔗

Mathew Rodriguez (15 July 2026)

Seemingly unhappy with a group of women deciding to make rules for membership in their own organization, Virginia Republican Ben Cline has introduced legislation to force the Daughters of the American Revolution to ban transgender women. The bill comes less than a month after the historical society voted 1474-981 to reject a ban on trans women.

Cline, who has represented Virginia's 6th congressional district in the House of Representatives since 2019, introduced the Daughters of the American Revolution Membership Integrity Act on Wednesday, per an exclusive in Fox News.

"The DAR has a longstanding tradition of celebrating and empowering women who represent the exceptional heritage of the birth of our Nation," Cline told Fox News in a statement. Calling the proposed law "common-sense legislation," he said the act would require the organization to "return to serving the true daughters of the American Revolution."

"As we celebrate America's 250th birthday, the organization has now abandoned the very principles on which it was founded," Cline said in his statement. "Rather than honoring and preserving a lineage-based organization for women, it has embraced radical gender ideology at the expense of the women it was created to serve."

[KathyLauren]

Don't y'all have freedom of association there?  Since when is the DAR a government agency?  I'm pretty sure that even the current corrupt Supreme Court would rule against that.

[Devlyn ✅]

So, what I presume is one of the oldest women's organizations in the US, founded on a connection to our independence.... being told by a man that they voted wrong.

[Lori Dee ✅]

"As we celebrate America's 250th birthday, the organization has now abandoned the very principles on which it was founded," Cline said in his statement.

The Founding of DAR

The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution was founded on October 11, 1890, during a time that was marked by a revival in patriotism and intense interest in the beginnings of the United States of America. Women felt the desire to express their patriotic feelings and were frustrated by their exclusion from men's organizations formed to perpetuate the memory of ancestors who fought to make this country free and independent. As a result, a group of pioneering women in the nation's capital formed their own organization and the Daughters of the American Revolution has carried the torch of patriotism ever since.

https://www.dar.org/discover/about-dar/dar-history 🔗

So, which of these "founding principles" is he referring to?

Once again, a politician attempts to make a law about something he knows nothing about.

[Finally Anna]

Once again, a politician attempts to make a law about something he knows nothing about.

I beg to differ, even though I don't know the details of how the politicians work, over there...
They try to make laws about things they know rather well, but for purposes other than what they proclaim. Smokescreens that hide the real purpose of oppressing trans people.